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by mtgx 7y ago
Has anyone else found it strange how we haven't heard any complaint about WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption from law enforcement (of various countries) in the past couple of years?
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by mtgx 7y ago
And what do you think this was? Virtually all router/networking devices have some kind of "hardcoded account" (read:backdoor) and this is only slowly changing. I believe the EU is going to ban the practice soon.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Commentary by Chromium team: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/mds
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by mtgx 7y ago
Can you, really? How do you opt out of the government giving the original data to airlines in the first place? https://twitter.com/jetblue/status/1118607244290084864
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by mtgx 7y ago
It certainly helps that the U.S. government can't negotiate Medicare prices, too.
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by mtgx 7y ago
And do you think this browser is dethroning Chrome because "it's just so good," or much more likely, because Google's services are officially and unofficially being blocked/given the cold shoulder by many local bu
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by mtgx 7y ago
Full self-driving cars will be unproven/limited to certain very specific areas for a while. And Uber will have to deal with the liability from accidents, too, plus the media storms (and they have enough of those already).
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by mtgx 7y ago
With features like these, I imagine secure Android devices with prompt software patches will become even more important in the future (whether or not the people using them realize).
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by mtgx 7y ago
Defense budget is $800 bn now.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Why does it still look like a concept car?
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by mtgx 7y ago
It's a shame the Copperhead OS died.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Banning the 737 Max from flying in the U.S. forever would be a good start, I'm thinking. It could be a decent lesson for airplane makers (and self-driving car makers) at least.
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by mtgx 7y ago
I would've preferred the much newer Snapdragon 675 with Cortex-A76 vs the A73 in the Snapdragon 670. Some Xiaomi phones have already launched with it for $200. But Google didn't seem to care enough for that change, despite the fac
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by mtgx 7y ago
What would competition do in terms of how advertising companies benefit from user data? I think the point is to start forcing companies into thinking sensitive user data is a liability that is taxed or worse if they do anything "ne
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by mtgx 7y ago
Verizon wrote off the $5 billion Yahoo purchase, and basically values it at $200 million now. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/11/media/verizon-oath-valuat... So much for Verizon's content empire. An
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yes. I don't like having to give my fingerprint data, which no doubt will be stolen from their databases especially now that they intend to unify them and allow all sorts of agencies to have access to it, just to be allowed to travel i
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by mtgx 7y ago
Personally, I'm more impressed by the company's President, Brad Smith, who seems to want real change in terms of digital rights. He's the man behind every single "pro user rights" Microsoft announcement you've
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yes, maybe if the auto-delete was for 24h, at least as an option, but 3 months? Why bother? Just pause the activity completely: https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
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by mtgx 7y ago
Translation: American users are f-ed.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Not necessarily. Climate change is arguably destroying the U.S. through droughts, hurricanes, floods, etc. But you don't see the U.S. react so swiftly. It's really when the interests of those in power that are affected, that the
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yeah, after 18 months. Thanks for this "generosity" Google, but I'll keep all my tracked activity paused instead. https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
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by mtgx 7y ago
> I was under the impression that the constitutional protections of all citizens have been suspended 100 miles from all borders including airports in the united states. By who? And who decided that arbitrary number (just because it&#x2
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by mtgx 7y ago
Maybe Kickstarter and such platforms need to put up a system where the consumer only pays 10%-50% of the final retail price until the product is completed.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Who gets <200ms latency anymore when Google analytics and FB pixel tracking scripts take more than that each and most websites have them?
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by mtgx 7y ago
More crimes news to keep people scared means bigger budgets for police/law enforcement=bigger gov contracts for Amazon.
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by mtgx 7y ago
They probably couldn't even tell him how they caught him, because then they'd have to admit that GCHQ is spying on most government members, too.
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by mtgx 7y ago
If the FBI wasn't then NSA definitely was and then told the FBI.
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by mtgx 7y ago
The merger began a while ago.
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by mtgx 7y ago
They should've gone with WireGuard anyway.
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by mtgx 7y ago
"Snoopers' Charter" pretty much gave police and other civil law enforcement agencies broad spy agency-level powers. This game was over the moment that law passed.

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